If you asked a random assortment of couples about the subjects they fight with their significant other over, you’d most likely hear the same things over and over again. A study published in Family Relations that evaluated the diaries of 100 married men and 100 married women for 15 days revealed that the following topics
The Citi® Secured Mastercard® is a secured credit card with no annual fee and a required minimum security deposit of $200 when you open your account, prior to card activation. If you have poor credit, or lack much of a credit history at all, this is a great card for building or rebuilding your credit. Although a recent
What was true 30 years ago isn’t necessarily true today. Few people would agree that cassette tapes produce the best possible sound or legwarmers are the height of fashion. And like technology, fashion, cultural values, and just about everything else in life, financial wisdom changes over time. We all carry around certain financial assumptions we
Nervous about bear markets, crashes, and corrections? Equities offer outstanding returns in the long term, but their volatility can be terrifying in the short term, especially for new investors. Fortunately, investors have plenty of options to reduce risk in their stock investing and sleep easy at night. But for all the benefits that stocks and
We all have at least one financial services horror story – a tale of woe, tribulation, and great personal cost courtesy of our friendly neighborhood financial institutions. Most of these horror stories come down to poor customer service, but some are more sinister than that. In the aftermath of the late-2000s financial crisis, Congress created
My wife and I live in an old house that sometimes shows its age. Not long after we bought the place, we returned from a restful winter weekend getaway to a bone-chilling surprise. At some point while we were gone, the aging thermostat failed to call for heat, leaving the boiler idle as the outside
The first homeowner in my collegiate social circle bought a barely habitable two-story Craftsman on the wrong side of the tracks. With his parents cosigning the loan and an army of friends helping him fix the place up, he turned it around in a matter of weeks and rented out three of the four bedrooms to
Are you a planner? I’m not. Until my wife convinced me to join a shared household calendar, I more or less lived by the seat of my pants. I’ll admit that spontaneity extended to my personal finances. Though I’ve always been financially disciplined, strategic money management hasn’t been my strong suit. Spending less than I
Ever daydream about switching to a single-income household so you or your spouse could stay home with the kids? It’s not as old-fashioned as it sounds. In fact, more millennial parents (21%) are staying home with their children than Gen-X parents (17%) did when they were the same age, according to a 2018 Pew survey.
If you have a deposit account at an FDIC member bank, you are probably aware that your funds are protected by FDIC insurance up to the statutory limit of $250,000 per bank. The best-known and most widely available form of deposit insurance available to U.S. consumers, FDIC insurance, provides dollar-for-dollar compensation for insured balances if a member
Few life events are as stressful as bankruptcy. Every penny, asset, and source of income is put under the microscope for dissection. When it’s over and you finally receive your discharge or dismissal, you realize you’ve only reached the end of one set of challenges. Yes, the bankruptcy and debt collection threats are behind you,
Immigration has long been a controversial subject for Americans, despite the country’s reputation as the world’s melting pot. In times of economic uncertainty, emotions run especially high, and partisans on both sides of the political divide use immigration controversy for their own gain. Knowing what’s fact and what’s fiction is particularly tricky in the unregulated, anonymous world
